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Unmanned systems could become a key force multiplier for the Royal Swedish Navy in a bid to shore up hull numbers and add new capabilities to the fleet, according to the new service chief RAdm Ewa Skoog Haslum.
Speaking during the Saab submarine seminar on 3 September, Haslum said that the navy was ‘looking forward to unmanned’ technologies in the maritime domain and exploring how tactics and operational practices could be adapted.
Additionally, it could offer a lower-cost method of increasing the size of the fleet, she explained.
‘We don’t have enough platforms so we must add unmanned,’ Haslum
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